Saturday, September 22, 2012

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For ... Ireland's Best Caches

Geocaching Ireland Links:

www.geocaching.com "Ireland - Best Caches (shared, public)"

Geocaching Ireland @ www.geocachingireland.com

JoeVlogsTV's channel (Irishman, vlogger, geocaching enthusiast)



trackable Geocaching Ireland coin

from Geocaching Ireland (www.geocachingireland.ie)

Riddle Me This?

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Vaya geocaching en Chile!

Go Chile is a online travel agency offering consulting services and reviews on hotels in Chile, tours, cruises, flights and car rental deals.

GoChile.com offers up some insight and advice on geocaching in Chile:

Where to Practice

Although the sport is very recent, nearly 340.000 hidden caches exist in more that 130 countries around the world. The numbers in South America are growing, with about 500 caches (as of Nov, 2006) and Chile being the most developed geocaching country with around 165. We hope that soon more gocachers will unite us.

Geocaching is not solely about searching, but also hiding caches. For more information on how to hide caches, refer to Geocaching.com.

You can search geocaches in Chile, from Geocaching.com with the link below:

* Geocaches in Chile

Recommendations

- Take the same precautions that you would when you go on a hike or trekking trip.
- Advise or warn someone about your travel itinerary
- Take a map, water, sun protection and a flashlight in case the night catches you in the way.
- Do not underestimate the time for the trip. The distance of the GPS indicates a direct route.
- Choose a cache in accordance with the difficulty and your abilities as well as the people who are accompanying you.
- It is convenient that you familiarize yourself with the area through a topo map and identify the possible obstacles and dangers.

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While you are in Chile, you might also want to plan a trip to Rapa Nui island (aka Easter Island, Spanish: Isla de Pascua). Do a little more geocaching and sightseeing amongst ancient stone statues, called "moai" by the islanders.

The "GeoKs”(JEE-oh-kays) chronicled their island geocaching adventure on their blog, Geocaching Around the World – Chile (Rapa Nui), which also includes some awesome photographs!

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Got a case of Wanderlust? Thinking about living abroad? A US expat currently living in Chile, Leslie Foreman's site (www.leslieforman.com) has some great tips on how to become a global citizen! Also, read her article on Brazen Life; How to Launch Your Career Overseas.

GPS Coordinate Converter/Mapper Online Tools

Check out some of Jeff Boulter's handy GPS tools at boulter.com.

We've used the GPS Coordinate Converter to plot multiple waypoints on one map. It is fairly easy to use, but it would be nice if it had better map printing options other than just printing the web page, and the map view area could be larger. This tool also converts coordinates into different formats of Latitude and Longitude data such as in decimal degrees(WGS84), degrees/minutes/seconds, GPS, and UTM.